Electricity from Viruses (Cool)

May 14th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Science keeps advancing, and one of its latest accomplishments is finding a way to generate electricity from viruses. Here’s more from sister site Planetsave:

Generating Electricity From Viruses (via Planetsave)

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have come up with a way to use non-human viruses to create electricity from movement. The researchers were able to create enough electrical current to power a small liquid-crystal display, just by…

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Tags: electricity viruses, engineered viruses, genetically engineered viruses, NREL, virus, viruses

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